# Hocine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hocine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حسين.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |

## People named Hocine

- Hocine Soltani, former Algerian boxer
- Hocine Yahi, Algerian footballer
- Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian political (1926-2015)
- Hocine Benmiloudi, Algerian footballer (1955-1981)
- Hocine Achiou, association football player
- Hocine Metref, Algerian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.